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Most of the nearly 14,500 community clinics are plagued by risky buildings, staff shortages, or irregularities and deficits in medicine supply and they are on the verge of becoming “clinically dead”. Community clinics were established to bring healthcare services to the doorsteps of marginal people across the country. Since its inception, the initiative has played a significant role in providing healthcare to marginal communities while earning international praise and recognition. Acro...

Patients and their family members are facing fresh fears after coming to Matlab South 50 Bed Upazila Health Complex in Chandpur for treatment. Large cracks have appeared in the ceilings of different hospital buildings. Plaster, cement and brick chips are continuously falling from various places. As a result, patients, doctors, nurses and hospital officials and employees are spending their days in anxiety, fearing a major accident could happen at any time. A visit to the hospital found tha...